Right Is Wrong to Think It Won on Health Care
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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Some conservatives haveconvinced themselves that last month’s ruling by theSupreme Court upholding key parts of President BarackObama’s health-care overhaul contained a great victory inthe battle for constitutionally limited government. Theyare mistaken.
The Obama plan, as written by Congress and signed bythe president, tells states they must expand their Medicaidprograms or lose all their federal funding. (The federalgovernment provides about half the program’s money.) Sevenjustices of the Supreme Court held that this threat to cutoff funding was an act of unconstitutional coercion.